Books with Games

Working with Groups to Enhance Relatioinships
Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin and Sue Walden

Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Augusto Boal

The Art of Play: Helping Adults Reclaim Imagination & Spontaneity
Adam and Allee Blatner

Ineteractive and Improvisational Drama
Adam Blatner

Simple Fun For Busy People
John Bradshaw

Acting Games: Improvisations and Exercises
Marsh Cassady

The Well-Played Game: A Playful Path to Wholeness
Bernie De Koven

Improvisation for the Theater
Viola Spolin

A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and
Spiritual Practice for People Who Have Time for Neither
Nina Wise

Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence
Ruth Zaporah

Videos on Play

The Promise of Play – a Three-part PBS series on play,
produced by Direct Cinema Limited, P.O. Box 10002,
Santa Monica, CA (310) 636-8200, (310) 636-8200

Deep Play
Diane Ackerman

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse

Playing By Heart: The Vision and Practice of Belonging
O. Fred Donaldson

Homo Ludens
J. Huizinga

The Genius of Play
Sally Jenkinson

The Play Ethic
Pat Kane

The Comedy of Survival: Literary Ecology & the Play Ethic
Joseph Meeker

Free Play
Stephen Nachmanovich

You Can’t Say You Can’t Play
Vivian Gussin Paley

The Ambiguity of Play
Brian Sutton Smith

Beyond Love & Work: Why Adults Need To Play
Lenore Terr.

Playing and Reality
D.W. Winnicott